InterNaciones

Presentation. Human mobility: borders and cartographies

2025-05-18T19:48:41-06:00

InterNaciones journal has dedicated this volume to the topic of human mobility. We have set aside the meaning of mobility as fickleness and inconstancy to focus on human mobility as the movement of people across different mapped territories, whose analysis requires a transdisciplinary approach, the product of cultural, political, legal, and economic studies. From this perspective, we have constructed a model that addresses human mobility as a becoming; that is, from the understanding of planetary life itself, situated as a whole and from the interactions of human, animal, material, and even urban-spatial lives that make it unique and unrepeatable.

Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic: Haitian identity and denial of rights in the era of neoliberal and predatory capitalism

2025-01-14T14:40:46-06:00

This article deals with the migratory process of denial of rights and misohaitianity experienced by Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic. It is an immigration marked by irregularity, encouraged by the Dominican State itself in order to have an irregular labor force lacking all social and human rights. In this sense, we were able to see that the capacity of agency and functioning is quite reduced. For this reason, it is necessary to reveal the discriminatory practices experienced by Haitian immigrants in the dr. Their capacity for agency as a community is quite restricted due to the socioeconomic and sociocultural exclusion in which this Haitian group lives. They have suffered many humiliations and abuses both by the Dominican State, which has encouraged this migration, and by the Haitian State. As capital is addicted to cheap labor, Dominican companies and the Dominican countryside require a labor force outside the law to accumulate profits through labor exploitation; in this sense, these migrants are included from exclusion and excluded from inclusion. Haitian migrants experience double discrimination and denial of rights by both the Dominican State and the Haitian State.

Humanitarian governance, migration policy at the northern border of Mexico, and human mobility

2025-01-14T15:16:54-06:00

The aim of this article is to analyze the conceptual contribution of the distinction between humanist governance and humanitarian governance within the framework of Mexico’s Migration Policy at the Mexico-United States border, characterized by increasing human mobility. The central analytical question is: What is the contribution of humanitarian governance to the growing hu
man mobility in the border relations between both countries? The results highlight the role of a humanitarian governance that encompasses various dimensions (rights, mobility, vulnerability, migration, security) with multiple actors and at different levels, interacting without a coordinated and planned process to mitigate the negative effects of human mobility, such as human rights violations.

Social and narrative representations of human mobility: human rights and non-criminalization in Latin America

2025-01-14T14:39:03-06:00

This article examines social representations related to human mobility in Mexico and Latin America, analyzing their role in legitimizing structural inequalities and constructing dehumanizing migration narratives. From an interdisciplinary perspective, grounded in Serge Moscovici’s social psychology and the critical theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Stuart Hall, and David
Campbell, this study explores how these representations shape collective imaginaries that reinforce marginalization processes and justify restrictive public policies.
The analysis highlights that dominant narratives associate migrants with social and economic threats, contributing to the dispossession of agency and dignity while reinforcing structural inequalities. These representations consolidate power hierarchies and symbolic violence, making the structural causes of migration—such as economic precariousness, environmental degradation, and armed conflicts—invisible. By examining specific cases related to border militarization and the dismantling of migrant caravans, this research demonstrates the impact of these discourses on the formulation of
policies that prioritize control over human rights.
The proposed approach seeks to redefine these narratives by focusing on empathy and dignity, emphasizing integrative measures similar to those
implemented in Canada, which have transformed collective imaginaries and fostered social cohesion. Furthermore, this study explores the connection between academic and political debates on human mobility, providing theoretical and practical tools to redesign public actions that ensure justice and integration.

The new necropolitical governmentality of migration:

2024-11-19T10:37:29-06:00

The article argues from a necropolitical perspective —the sovereignty over death— that the global regime of migration and asylum is shifting towards one of forced internal displacement. It contends that First World countries have driven this change by progressively and entirely securing and closing their borders since 2015, while instrumentalizing necropolitical administration institutions of forced migration to achieve their goal. Through UNHCR, the First World has prepared public and political opinion by making profound changes to the methodology and presentation of its annual forced human mobility statistics. This fact has justified the production of new legal instruments that make asylum and documented migration more difficult,
while concealing the increase in internal displacement and inflating the expected behavior of refuge-seeking.

Migration in Mexico: Death and disappearance of migrants at the hands of organized crime

2025-01-20T20:14:00-06:00

Migration through the various routes across Mexico is today one of the most important, critical, and complex social phenomena. This phenomenon has been a source of significant challenges in recent decades and is characterized by the systematic violence suffered by migrants, as well as the repeated human rights violations they endure during their long journeys. This article analyzes how various organized crime groups established in Mexico have turned migratory routes into high-risk zones and how these groups exploit the vulnerability of migrants for practices such as extortion, kidnapping, human trafficking for various purposes, and even murder and disappearance.
Academic sources and reports from international organizations highlight the severity and magnitude of this issue. The collected and analyzed information emphasizes the lack of protection afforded to migrants by the state and the collusion between authorities and organized crime groups, which perpetuates a cycle of impunity that feeds and exacerbates the vulnerability of migrants, particularly in areas controlled by cartels such as Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Chiapas, Veracruz, among others. Additionally, the data allow for an examination of the social and political implications that arise from
these dynamics.
It is imperative to emphasize the need and urgency of generating a comprehensive approach that combines state action, international cooperation, and civil participation to improve the chances of providing security and dignity to individuals in transit through our country, regardless of their destination.

The criminalization of migrants in Mexico

2025-01-14T14:42:14-06:00

Through an extensive review of specialized academic literature and testimonies collected by civil society organizations and in previous research, the criminalization of migrants in an irregular situation in the Mexican legal system and its implementation is analyzed. The results of this work allow us to maintain that, despite the advances in the legislation and implementation
of immigration control and the favorable discourse of the Mexican authorities towards migration, both the regulations and the implementation of the
deportation system, are still notably criminalizes migrants. Likewise, that State agents have unfairly incriminated and blamed migrants by spuriously
linking them with organized crime.

State of the art, return migration and the rights of Mexican children and youth

2024-12-18T12:24:21-06:00

The purpose of this article is to review the literature on the processes of social (re)insertion of Mexican children and young people who have returned in relation to rights in recent years. Academic production has paid much greater attention to the educational field, especially basic education. The difficulties of accessing and exercising this right can be divided analytically into two fields: entry and what happens in the classroom. These experiences will have important implications for socialization processes in the short, medium and long term. In general terms, there is evidence of a lack of public policies and a lack of institutional knowledge and sensitivity to address the specific needs of this group.

Internal Migration: Uprooting and Survival; A Study of Education and Adolescence on the Move in Western Mexico

2025-01-20T20:38:48-06:00

This collaboration aims to address the state of the art, as a fundamental theoretical element that allows for the contextualization of the internal migration phenomena (understood as a human diaspora) from one state to another in the Mexican Republic. In this case, entities from the west and south region. Likewise, we intend to address the theoretical framework taking the key words as a starting point. This collaboration is a preview of a research project coordinated by Dr. Amado Ceballos Valdovinos and titled “Analysis of the reach of the 3rd Constitutional article in regards to children and teenagers, internal migrants in the west and south of the Mexican Republic, addressing constructs of culture, memory and uprooting”. For this collaboration we will be focusing on education and teenagers, as a way of sectorizing the study subjects, we believe it will be evident that within every sector and individual studied, common categories will show depending on the age group. Migrating during the transition from childhood to adulthood, the things that happen in the subject and the influence of a new environment have great significance and are transcendental to the familiar and social development of the self, those were the reasons that led us to study these specific subjects in the first instance. The development of the project begins this year and is of long range, as it will be carried out within two years of research.

The challenge of the integration process without discrimination for refugees in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (GMA))

2025-02-18T12:58:19-06:00

The integration process of people subject to international protection in Mexico is a growing social phenomenon, which is subject to the regulatory and institutional framework of the different levels of government. However, there are still few studies and researches that have empirically observed this phenomenon in our country. For this reason, the objective of this chapter is to learn about the different aspects of the integration process of this population in Jalisco and specifically in the AMG, as well as to elucidate the obstacles and acts of discrimination suffered by refugees in their search for a lasting solution for their life project. The research method is the case study, and the main technique is the structured interview. The unit of analysis is persons subject to international protection living in the AMG. It is concluded that through acts of discrimination perpetrated against the population subject to international protection in Jalisco, their fundamental rights are violated and their local integration process in the state of Jalisco is hindered and obstructed.